[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

but also Republicans have done little to endear themselves to voters the past 16 months, and Romney is pretty cold and stiff.

A while back Romney made a comment about how he is not worried about the poor because they have a social safety to protect them unlike us. The Dems immediately ponced and Romney backtracked to say he didnt mean it.

Now there was an opportunity to point out how rising food prices hurt those of us who are not part of the ‘food stamp nation’ who are being protected from Obama’s failed policies using our tax money, but Romney just got spooked and dropped the whole subject.

Those are supposed to be policy questions, but I can see them affecting R's "likeability."

Not everyone will agree, but personally I think the "off-color" Limbaugh Fluke comments, Obama's counterattack (likely planned before as part of the trap), and the defense of Limbaugh by some on the Right, puts at least a temporary burden on GOP candidates. Romney was lucky that a CNN Dem operative attacked his wife, but the subject surely will materialize again.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Dec. 2011 - “The other day President Obama said, you know, it could be worse,” Romney said. “Sounds like Marie Antoinette, ‘Let them eat cake.’ ”

Apr 2012 - Mitt Romney cum Marie Antoinette?

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Romney was lucky that a CNN Dem operative attacked his wife, but the subject surely will materialize again.”

I hope the Dems are that stupid, but usually, they are shrewd (read evil).

Rom’s wife raised a bunch of kids successfully.

She has battled major illnesses.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Not everyone will agree, but personally I think the “off-color” Limbaugh Fluke comments, Obama’s counterattack (likely planned before as part of the trap), and the defense of Limbaugh by some on the Right, puts at least a temporary burden on GOP candidates. Romney was lucky that a CNN Dem operative attacked his wife, but the subject surely will materialize again.”

I cant disagree with that but I also think their move on the ‘religious freedom’ battle wrt employer mandates, not even in effect yet, was not thought out, was poorly planned and poorly executed. Dems were much more effective using it as a vehicle to declare a Republican ‘war on women.’

I had a bad feeling about it from the start and now congressional Republicans have abandoned that fight, much as they did the FICA fight.

The 'Ryan Plan 2' restores the cuts in the military made in Boehner's House's keystone deficit reduction bill, where Boehner got 95% of what he wanted.

Pretty pathetic record.